I know! I don't know why they are calling it a layoff. They are in such denial--even the acting police chief says it is not representative of their force--what BS. They are even trying to say that the officers "patrolled" in the Cadillacs that were looted. Maybe they patolled in Houston, Atlanta, Dallas--yeah thats the ticket.
"They are even trying to say that the officers "patrolled" in the Cadillacs that were looted."
Did you catch the claim that they had to take the Cadillac SUVs because their patrol cars were flooded? What does it tell you about their common sense (or, more to the point, their lack of it) that a car dealership is built in an area that is not flood-prone, while the police vehicle pool becomes a pool, literally?
Was there not one single person in a position of authority in the city of New Orleans, that had the vaguest sense that, maybe, just maybe, their city would flood in a hurricane, and it might not be wise to sit around with their thumbs up their butts and their buses, police cars and god only knows what else sitting in harms way? It's not as if the whole city was surrounded by water, held back by levees, backed up by gigantic pumps, for crying out loud.
I still can't believe it, yet it still keeps coming. Every time I hear something new, it's worse than before, as far as a lack of preparedness and accountability.